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hushed
CIDE DICTIONARY
hushed, adj.
- having the sound level reduced; -- especially used of the noise of conversation; as, speaking in hushed tones. [WordNet 1.5]
- having relatively little noise; as, a hushed church. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
hushed
at rest, calm, chastened, cloistered, closet, confidential, constrained, controlled, cool, dwindling, ebbing, echoless, even-tenored, halcyon, hush as death, impassive, in control, in hand, inaudible, inside, isolated, limited, moldering, mousy, noiseless, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, placid, quelled, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, restrained, secluded, sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered, silent, smooth, softened, soundless, stable, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subaudible, subdued, subsiding, tempered, tranquil, unagitated, unarticulated, undisturbed, unhearable, unmoved, unperturbed, unpronounced, unruffled, unsounded, unstirring, untroubled, unuttered, unvocalized, unvoiced, waning, whistROGET THESAURUS
hushed
Silence
N silence, stillness, peace, hush, lull, muteness, solemn silence, awful silence, dead silence, deathlike silence, silent, still, stilly, noiseless, soundless, hushed, mute, soft, solemn, awful, deathlike, silent as the grave, inaudible, silently, sub silentio, Int, hush!, silence!, soft!, whist!, tush!, chut!, tut!, pax!, be quiet!, be silent!, be still!, shut up!, chup!, chup rao!, tace!, one might hear a feather drop, one might hear a pin drop, so quiet you could hear a pin drop, grosse Seelen dulden still, le silence est la vertu de ceux qui ne sont pas sa, le silence est le parti le plus sar de celui se d_, silence more musical than any song, tacent satis laudant, better to be silent and thought a fool than to spe.For further exploring for "hushed" in Webster Dictionary Online